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Mining town turned ghost town revived each year for Christmas tradition

For one morning each December, the former residents of Picher bring a ghost town back to life. The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Oxford American documented this annual tradition and the toxic legacy that scattered Picher's residents.

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HART's busy Route 1 is fare-free for a year thanks to a pilot program the Tampa City Council is funding.
Fresh transit tactics increase ridership

Tampa City Council's pragmatic approach for improving service and growing ridership on HART Route 1 is producing results.

How a simple tool at bus stops can increase accessibility and ridership

Citilink, the local transit agency in Fort Wayne, Ind., is piloting a low-maintenance, low-energy display that can communicate route information to riders at two bus stops.

Senate bill would take back $21B appropriated for broadband deployment

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, created as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act under the Biden administration, is a $42.4 billion federal grant program aimed at connecting every American to high-speed internet.

A blueprint for reducing gun violence by 2040, according to experts

Gun violence as a major public health issue has received more attention and federal funding in recent years.

New ‘solution’ to student homelessness: parking lot for students to sleep in their cars

Forty-eight percent of college students experience housing insecurity, meaning 'challenges that prevent them from having a safe, affordable, and consistent place to live'

OPINION: Research causes cancer in rats

The context in which we do studies, plan programs and invest in development begins with how we name and think of people of interest.

Vouchers are booming, but rural private schools accepting them are lacking

One-third of counties don’t have a private school that accepts vouchers within their borders, and distance is a factor in parents’ decisions on school choice.

OPINION: Here is one solution for the problem of social media and political violence

The intensity of America’s political culture that factored into the assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has intensified the scrutiny of the role of social media.

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